When I started doing my research, it was really do Shen laughter I was interested in because it's an escape from the unconscious and I'm a psychoanalyst. And so we sometimes laugh because something is funny, but most often when we're really laughing to Shen laughter, it's not rational or logical. It's this escape from this primal part of ourselves which the psychoanalyst Winnecott would call the true self. He says the true self is in every infant when they're born. It'sThis wellspring of spontaneous creative energy that the infant will express in the spontaneous gestures and sounds. If the mother makes a very gendered infant and a mother, if the mother responds,
What the hell is laughter? Why do we do it, and what is its purpose? This week, psychoanalyst Nuar Alsadir joins Adam to discuss her theories about the origins of laughter, its effect on other people, and its purpose in various scenarios. Buy Nuar’s book at http://factuallypod.com/books
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